The Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University (HURI) welcomes six research fellows for the 2021-2022 academic year. Put on hold during the COVID-19 pandemic, the fellowship program is…
Category: Awards & Prizes
GERMANY: Ukrainian-Born Oksana Lyniv Becomes First Woman Conductor at Bayreuth Festival
Bayreuth is one of the world’s best-known music festivals dedicated to the works of 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner. Ukrainian-born maestra Oksana Lyniv became the first woman to…
Mathematician Oleg Pikhurko wins an ERC Advanced Grant
Professor Oleg Pikhurko from the Mathematics Institute and the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications, University of Warwick, UK was awarded his second ERC grant. This time it is the…
Borexino experiment awarded the EPS 2021 Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize
The 2021 Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize for an outstanding contribution to Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology is awarded to the Borexino collaboration for the groundbreaking observation of solar…
2021 Huttenbach Prize awarded for the paper on the Holodomor
Nataliia Levchuk and her colleagues from the Ptoukha Institute for Demography and Social Studies (Kyiv, Ukraine) and Oleh Wolowyna from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (North Carolina, USA)…
Oleksandra Keudel is awarded the ASN 25th Annual World Convention 2021 Doctoral Paper Award
The DUAG member Oleksandra Keudel (FU Berlin, Germany) received ASN 25th Annual World Convention 2021 Doctoral Paper Award for her doctoral research paper entitled “Citizen Participation in Ukrainian Regional…
Igor Komarov awarded International Excellence Fellowship by the KIT
Professor Igor Komarov from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine, is one of two first awardees of the new KIT International Excellence Grants and Fellowships Program. See…
GERMANY: Scholarships from German-Ukrainian Historians Commission awarded in 2021
The German-Ukrainian Historians Commission, established in 2015, aims to deepen the connections between German and Ukrainian history and to promote the mutual dissemination of knowledge about German and…
Maksym Kovalenko (ETH Zürich and Empa) awarded the Dan Maydan Prize in Nanoscience Research 2021
Prof. Maksym V. Kovalenko is distinguished for his pioneering work on the surface chemistry of nanocrystals and their use for electronic and optoelectronic devices, including batteries, photodetectors, thermo-electrics, solar cells…
First Drahomán Prize winner is Claudia Dathe (Germany)
Claudia Dathe (Germany) is translator from Ukrainian into German, coordinator of literary translation at the University of Tübingen. She was nominated with her translations of Serhii Zhadan’s collection…